1929
TRY TO SAVE SNAKE KEEPER
Reptile House Curator Is Bitten By African Viper
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1 -- (UP) -- Physicians hoped today blood transfusion would save the life of Marlin Perkins, 24, curator of the reptile house at the St. Louis zoo who was bitten by a poisonous snake.
They said Perkins would have died almost instantly yesterday had not an assistant at the zoo dangered his own life by promptly sucking the venom from the wound.
The snake was a gaboon viper, one of the most poisonous of West African snakes.
--The Ogden Standard-Examiner, Ogden City, Utah, January 1, 1929, page 1.
Comment: This is the exact same Marlin Perkins later famous for hosting Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom on TV.
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